Rose-Marie Gibbs calls Chuck Spezzano a "Psychologist"

June 9, 2020

Rose-Marie Gibbs who runs a kinesiology business in the UK perpetuated the long repeated myth that Chuck Spezzano is actually a "psychologist" in a recent marketing blurb touting her credentials:

Rose-Marie studied for many years with the Psychologist Chuck Spezzano whose ‘Psychology of Vision’ model draws on Helen Schucman’s seminal ‘A Course in Miracles’. Rose-Marie uses aspects of her ‘mind-therapy’ training in all her work, as well as offering specific counselling and personal development sessions.

https://rose-mariegibbs.com/

Like most of those who grant this occupational title to Chuck without investigation, I'm sure she didn't know she was spreading a falsehood that seems to be echoed mostly in Europe. We are especially interested why so many who were clients of POV come away believing Chuck is really a professional psychologist, sometimes he is even called a "clinical psychologist." Who told them these lies?

Spezzano's 1977 Ph.D. was apparently in something exotic called "Professional Psychology" and unique to his now extinct school. One could argue it was about one notch up from a mail-order degree. It was not accredited by the APA, which means his diploma bypassed any sort of national standard. Even in Europe this should disqualify him from being called a "psychologist." Both of the Spezzanos are on record saying Chuck is not a "psychologist."

In addition, Spezzano was fined by the State of Hawaii in 2004 for impersonating a professional. He is not licensed and is not even remotely qualified to practice professional psychology even if he applied. He has NEVER worked as a licensed "psychologist" or published any research in peer-reviewed journals that we can locate. His credentials have been inflated and falsified for decades, starting with his own newspaper advertisements in the 1980s. Here are some links to some primary sources of interest so you can see the evidence:

http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/09/charles-lee-spezzano-ph-d-in_28.html

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/09/state-of-hawaii-v-charles-l-spezzano.html

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2017/10/honolulu-advertising-clips-from-1980s.html

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-newspaper-potpourri.html